A SOUTH SUMATRA, KRUI, TATIBIN, decorated in supplementary weft with a ship with downward pointing hooks and two animals divided by a tree-of-life motif and smaller ships on top in blue, red, rose, green, white, yellow and metal threads | Christie's

Sale 2310

Indonesian Pictures, Watercolours, Drawings and Works of Art

Amsterdam

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29 October 1996

Browse Sale

Lot 395

A SOUTH SUMATRA, KRUI, TATIBIN, decorated in supplementary weft with a ship with downward pointing hooks and two animals divided by a tree-of-life motif and smaller ships on top in blue, red, rose, green, white, yellow and metal threads

Price realised

NLG 1,384

Estimate

NLG 600 - NLG 800

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A SOUTH SUMATRA, KRUI, TATIBIN, decorated in supplementary weft with a ship with downward pointing hooks and two animals divided by a tree-of-life motif and smaller ships on top in blue, red, rose, green, white, yellow and metal threads
97.5 x 38 cm
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Lot Essay

rf.Kahn Majlis, B., Woven Messages-Indonesian Textiles in Course of Time, Hildesheim 1991, p. 102 ill. 80

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